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The advances in technology that rocked the industrial arts, bringing automation and displacing workers, are coming to the
legal profession and giving a bigger role to nonlawyers, according to William Henderson, a nationally recognized authority
on the legal profession and legal education.

An Indianapolis man’s 40-year executed sentence for leading a home invasion and forcing the woman who lived there to
perform oral sex at gunpoint wasn’t improper, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Friday.

Evansville public schools’ restrictive policy on service dogs is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act,
the ACLU of Indiana contends in a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of two high-schoolers whose medical conditions require the
animals.

Lake County-area bar associations and attorneys across northwest Indiana will team up over the Labor Day weekend to help prepare
the room where a 5-year-old girl undergoing cancer treatment will recover upon returning home to St. John, Ind.

New rules in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana regarding wage assignment orders in Chapter 13
cases and additional requirements for electronic filing will be effective Sept. 23, according to an order posted Thursday.

A divided Indiana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a man convicted of rape on retrial was unconstitutionally prosecuted
twice for the same offense, but the court upheld denial of post-conviction relief.

The Indiana Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court order for a new trial in a case involving a $41,400 award
made to the estate of a man who was killed at a Speedway hotel by a former employee.

William Conour’s multi-million-dollar fraud has produced an avalanche of state and federal lawsuits naming as defendants
several attorneys who used to work with the once-prominent personal-injury and wrongful-death attorney.

Indiana Supreme Court Justice Mark Massa on Aug. 14 denied a formal motion arguing that he should recuse himself from a pending
case concerning a controversial power plant in Rockport. The project is backed by a longtime friend of Massa and former aide
to Gov. Mitch Daniels, whose administration championed the project.

Pilot or farmer, attorney or father, Chris Stevenson wears many hats. The lawyer, who has worked for Wilson Kehoe Winingham
LLC for going on 12 years, specializes in injury work, specifically that which is aviation- or farm-related.

In its review of legal education, a special committee led by retired Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall Shepard concluded
that fixing the problems in law schools will require help from individuals and groups outside the classroom.

Indiana’s ethanol industry faces an uncertain regulatory environment and likely more stringent emissions standards after
a recent Indiana Court of Appeals ruling. A state agency will ask the Indiana Supreme Court to hear the case, as several corn-to-fuel
plant operators also are expected to do.